President Obama delivered a speech at the recent National Prayer Breakfast, citing historical events that occurred hundreds of years ago [the Crusades and the Inquisition], apparently as rationalization for the acts of Islamic terrorists. The inability of the current administration to accurately represent and label the current terrorist threat is offensive to many Americans. This attitude raises questions about the president’s real motivation. The world, unquestionably, is facing a real and ominous threat to modern civilization. It is imperative that Islamic terrorism be soundly defeated, not ‘degraded,’ in order to avoid unthinkable consequences for all people.

Michael Massarotti,Broomfield

This letter was published in the Feb. 13 edition.

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I want to applaud The Denver Post for showing the cartoons from Charlie Hebdo lampooning Muhammad and aspects of Islam. Unlike France and some other European countries that are not afraid to lampoon Islam, both in print and film, we have been cowards in that area. When Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered a few years ago by a Muslim fanatic for his short film “Submission,” which criticized the treatment of women in Islam, Hollywood stood silent. Each year, the Academy Awards does a remembrance piece of those in the film industry who passed away that year. Not a word was mentioned about Van Gogh.

We should all applaud the French and stand with them. The Post editorial (“France’s martyrs for freedom,” Jan. 8) was excellent but didn’t go far enough in criticizing our own media for shying away from satirizing Islam. We cannot let Muslim fanatics rule our world. Ever!

Walt Bonora, Lakewood

This letter was published in the Jan. 10 edition.

When the satirists at Charlie Hebdo decided to treat with ridicule and contempt that which several billion people on the planet hold sacred, serious blowback was sure to come — all their, and our, incantations and pieties about freedom of the press notwithstanding.

Frank Mitchell, Denver

This letter was published in the Jan. 10 edition.

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Letter-writer Karl Reinig questions why it is necessary to describe the Boko Haram as “Islamic militants.” Well, several girls who escaped said the militants were yelling “Allahu akbar” (God is great) as they approached. The same lofty praise of Islam’s almighty was heard as the Boko Haram approached and attacked the town of Gamboru Ngala on May 5, killing at least 336. The silence from the world’s major Islamic nations on these atrocities has been deafening.

And yes, Mr. Reinig, I would refer to people burning a cross in the yard of a Mississippi resident as “Christian militants.” They are using the Christian cross, after all, as a symbol of their righteousness.

Rebecca Greben, Denver

This letter was published in the May 14 edition.

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Letter-writer Calvin Downs unequivocally condemns a Post letter of Nov. 14 which equates “Muslim and Christian fundamentalism in the matter of legal systems … as a flagrant disregard for history and the truth.” Right on!

Not just the average American but almost all our nation’s leaders — in all three branches of our government — have little understanding of the Islamic faith, and its radical Sharia law. Has not 9/11 taught us anything about the Islamic religion?

Our Constitution guarantees us freedom of religion. But that freedom does not mean the freedom to ignore our laws, and certainly not to betray our nation. The 9/11 terrorists were following fundamentalist Islamic law, hoping thereby to win Allah’s favor and gain eternal life in the Islamic heaven.

Charles L. King, Boulder

The writer served the U.S. Information Service in Tehran as assistant director of the Iran America Society.
This letter was published in the Nov. 20 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.

Letter-writer Calvin Downs states: “It is shameful and dishonest to equate the two religions” (Islam and Christianity) when dealing with legal systems. In preface to this statement, he makes totally bogus claims concerning the two religions and their approach towards women.

Downs ignores the “Christian” fundamentalist drive to outlaw every woman’s right to control her own reproductive system, both by making abortion illegal and by the fatuously ridiculous nonsense of attempting to declare the fertilized egg a “person,” with accompanying consequences of outlawing all the principal forms of contraception as well.

The Founding Fathers of this great nation took great pains to put “religion” — any and all forms of organized “religion” — out of our civil government. It is up to loyal Americans today to see to it that religion is kept out of our civil government.

Colin J. Guthrie, Aurora

This letter was published in the Nov. 20 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.

The letter equating Muslim and Christian fundamentalism in the matter of legal systems demands a response to its flagrant disregard for history and the truth.
Muslim fundamentalism seeks to impose Sharia law as a legal system, including its absolute disregard for the equality and rights of women.

In direct contrast, Christians generally are staunch believers in our nation’s legal system, which is rooted in the common law dating back hundreds of years. Christianity has been at the foundation of Western civilization since before the founding of the republic.

It is shameful and dishonest to equate these two religions.

Calvin Downs, Littleton

This letter was published in the Nov. 17 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.

If what Tom Tancredo says about Muslims planning a Sharia state here in America is true, we should all be worried, indeed. I certainly want no part of that sort of government. But we should also be concerned about what might be called the “right-wing Christian” plans for almost exactly the same sort of reactionary legal system — and it’s a lot closer to being implemented, because many American senators and representatives are supportive of it.

Read the recent books “The Family” and “Racing Toward Armageddon,” and you will be amazed at how similar the ideologies of fundamentalist Christians and Muslims are — in fact, they are exactly the same thing.

Neil Haverstick, Lakewood

This letter was published in the Nov. 12 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.

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